Michael Hall Antiques

Tennessee- The colored National Convention Held at Nashville, April 5th, 6th and 7th.-From a photograph by C.C. Giers, Nashville.

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.

May 6th, 1876. Page 145.

Framed.

SOLD

Bill Sawyer (Tennessee, 1936-2020). Title: “ Hwy 70, Late Sunday Afternoon.” Tempera on masonite, 16”x 20”. Frame 20” x 24”.

Bill Sawyer was a self-taught artist from Nashville, Tennessee/ He is said to have taken up painting while stationed in France in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His first exhibition was in Nashville in May of 1959 and he went on to have one-man shows at Daniel Orr's Gallery in San Diego, the Little Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the Parthenon in Nashville. Joseph Patterson, then the president of the American Association of Museums, arranged for a show of Sawyer's work at the Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York in 1964. 


Tempera on Masonite. 18”x 24”. Girl in Pink Dress Flying a Kite.

Bill Sawyer was a self taught Nashville artist who started painting when stationed in France. His first exhibition was in Nashville in May of 1959 and he went on to have one-man shows at Daniel Orr’s Gallery in San Diego, the Little Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the Parthenon in Nashville. Joseph Patterson, then the president of the American Association of Museums, arranged for a show of Sawyer’s work at the Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York in 1964. Sawyer was the first untrained artist to have a one-man show at the gallery, and his second show there, in 1966.

Oil on board, landscape depicting an open field with river in the foreground and a church with other buildings in the wooded background under a hazy atmosphere. Signed lower right: "G. Gaul". In script verso # "108 / Blanch W Gregor". Framed in a gold frame with repeating acanthus leaves and gold fillet. Artist board size: 12" H x 16" W, Frame size: 18 1/2" H x 22 1/4" W.

Halls Mill Market Unionville, Tennessee. Oil on Canvas. Signed and dated February ,1978 lower right.

Grant Wood.(1891-1942) Tree Planting Group. Original Lithograph. Edition of 250 plus 10 copies sent to the artist. Printer George C. Miller (1894-1965). Signed and dated lower right, 1937. Image: 8 3/8” x 10 7/8. Frame: 18 5/8” x 22 5/8”. Condition: Professionally cleaned, border trimmed.

Between 1937 and 1941, Grant Wood created 19 lithographs that were published by Associated American Artist (A.A.A.), a private gallery and publisher. A.A.A had a unique approach to marketing, offering printed images of American life in large editions (usually 250 prints) at reasonable prices via mail order and through regional stores such as Marshall Field’s in Chicago. Tree Planting Group was the first of the lithographs and was released December 1937.

Title: Winter. Oil on canvas 30” x 24”. Frame: 34” x 28”.

Abstract / cubist painting rendered in shades of brown, rust, teal and white. Unsigned. Float mounted in a gilt molded frame.

Provenance: Purchased from the artist in the 1960’s by Aladdin Industries for their corporate office in Nashville. Case Auction 2023.

When Aladdin Industries located its corporate headquarters in Nashville in 1949, it also introduced a progressive industrial design to Nashville's emerging corporate landscape. The company built a modern International-style headquarters designed by the firm of Spencer Warwick Associates on South Nashville land between existing railroad tracks and the Dixie Highway.

Aladdin Industries Incorporated dates to 1919. The company made and sold insulated receptacles and kerosene lamps. In the late 1930s Aladdin began to develop its first vacuum bottles. By 1949, at the time of the move to Nashville, Aladdin had merged with the Mantle Lamp Company of America, which had previously sold mantle lamps under the brand name “Aladdin.” The new company kept the name, and in the following year, 1950, Aladdin expanded into the new market of school lunch box kits.

Production at the Nashville factory was initially devoted to the manufacture of vacuum bottles and lunch box kits. The first name character for the school lunch boxes was television and movie cowboy star Hopalong Cassidy. The new product was a huge success, and over the decades Aladdin has produced hundreds of new school lunch box designs. A second important expansion came in 1965, when Aladdin acquired the Universal Stanley Division of the J. B. Williams Company, which made the Stanley thermos bottle. Stanley bottles are still produced at the Nashville factory. (Source : Tennessee Encyclopedia).

January by Grant Wood. (1891-1942) Original Lithograph, Signed lower right, Signed Geo. C. Miller, lower left. (lithographer). Released April ,1938. (Third lithograph in the series of 19) Between 1937 and 1941, Grant Wood created 19 lithographs that were published by Associated American Artist (A.A.A.), a private gallery and publisher. A.A.A had a unique approach to marketing, offering printed images of American life in large editions (usually 250 prints) at reasonable prices via mail order and through regional stores such as Marshall Field’s in Chicago.

Original Lithograph, Signed lower right, Signed Geo. C. Miller, lower left. (lithographer). Between 1937 and 1941, Grant Wood created 19 lithographs that were published by Associated American Artist (A.A.A.), a private gallery and publisher. A.A.A had a unique approach to marketing, offering printed images of American life in large editions (usually 250 prints) at reasonable prices via mail order and through regional stores such as Marshall Field’s in Chicago.
This lithograph gained notoriety for its full-frontal portrayal of a nude man; the U.S. Post Office banned A.A.A. from mailing the print because it was considered obscene. As a result, only 100 impressions were made.

Folk Art Donkey . Cut out plywood 20 1/4” x 10.”.

Homer Green started making Folk art at his home in Coffee county, Tennessee in 1979 after his wife passed away . SOLD.

Gold Face . Ceramic. Dated 2010. . H 7 1/2” W 8” D 2 1/2”.

Tennessee artist Olen Bryant held undergraduate degrees in theater and art from Murray State College in Murray, KY and earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. He also studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Institute in the Visual Arts in American Culture at the University of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum. In 1964 Bryant began teaching art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, retiring from is career in 1991. In 2007 he received the Tennessee Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award. He was a founding member of the Nashville Artist Guild and the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, now Tennessee Craft.

Bryant’s work is in public and private collections throughout Tennessee including the Tennessee State Museum and Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga.

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Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 7.

Title: Trifle, from the original in the collection of Francis P. Garvan Esq.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 4

Title: Bertrand, from the original in the collection of Francis P. Garvan Esq.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 16

Title: Asteroid, Bay Horse, 1861, by Lexington, b. 1850 out of Nebula, gr. 1852. From the original in the collection of Walter M. Jeffords, esq. Brown Dick, in the colors of R.A. Alexander esq. Old Ansel, famous trainer of Woodburn thoroughbreds. From the original in the collection of Walter M. Jeffords.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 14

Title: Imp. Leamington, from the original in the collection of Walter M. Jeffords Esq.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 19

Title: Enquirer, Bay Horse, 1867, By Imp. Leamington, br, 1853. Out of Lida, b. 1858. From the original in the collection of A.B. Hancock esq.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 1

Title: Sir Archy, Bay Horse, 1805, by Imp. Diomed, ch. 1777, out of Imp. Castianira, 1796.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

Bobwhite Quail in Texas Landsacoe. Casein on artist board.18”x 24”. Original frame 24” x 30 1/4”. Signed lower right.

Robert Quill Johnson grew up on a ranch near Pearsall, Texas. He received a bachelor of Fine Arts from Trinity University in San Antonio and his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Denver, Colorado. He painted and exhibited in the 1960’s and 1970’s and is know for his south Texas paintings of birds especially the Bobwhite Quail. SOLD

Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 10

Title: Reel, from the original in the collection of the Jockey club.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

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Artist: After Edward Troye ( American 1808-1874), The Gosden Head New York. Plate 11

Title: Revenue, Bay Horse, 1843 by imp. Trustee, ch. 1829, out of Rosalie Somers, b. 1831. From the original in the collection of Harlow, McDonald and co.

Date: 1932.

Medium: Mezzotint with hand coloring.

Dimensions: 15 x 16.5 ( plate). 18” x 22” (paper).

Edition: 50/110 ( hand numbered).

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Title: “Clearing Skies.” Oil on board 8”x10”. Signed lower left “L.E. Jones, 1948.” Original frame.

Louis Edward Jones was an American impressionist painter originally from Woodstock, New York, Jones established the Cliff Dwellers Studio in downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the 1930’s where he painted local landscape scenes.

Cloudy Sky with birds and tree in foreground. Oil on canvas 10” x 8”. Original frame 15”x13”. Signed and dated lower right. 12-1979.

Oil on board 4 1/4” x 12 1/4” Original gilded frame 7” x 15”. A classic Harvey Joiner Cherokee Park scene with beautiful light illuminating an emerald green Forrest and creek . Frame has artist name plaque. Provenance on back of painting, given as a wedding present in 1904.

Harvey Joiner was born in Charleston, Indiana in 1852, he studied with David Hoffman in St. Louis and was active in Louisville from 1880 until his death in 1932. He was avery popular Louisville artist in his time and was well known for his Cherokee Park paintings.

His works can be found in the following museums/collections:

The Filson Historical Society

Indiana State Museum

Kentucky Historical Society

Morris Museum of Art

The Johnston Collection

The Speed Art Museum.

Oil on board. Dated 1971. Urban Winter Landscape. Train Station. Signed Lower right Strauser ‘71.

Sterling Strauser was a self taught modernist artist born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, he was a supervisor of the boiler works at the Pocono, Pennsylvania public schools. Strauser was discovered by artist David Berliuk and Nashville gallery owner Myron King, both men were impressed by Strausers work and believed that his untrained eye allowed him to have artistic freedom.

His works can be found in the following collections: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA.; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. ; Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pa.; Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tn.; Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Va.; American Museum, Bath, England.

Provenance: Purchased by the current owner at Lyzon Gallery, Nashville, TN.

$ 2,600

Pen and ink on paper. Frame : 19 1/2x 14 1/2”.
Werner Wildner was born in Germany, he moved to Detroit with his family as a child and, as a teenager, to Nashville. He studied art briefly at the Mienzinger Art School in Detroit. He returned to Nashville to practice commercial art, but by the mid-1950s had decided to pursue his own art career. Wildner met with critical and commercial success after a 1962 exhibit of his art (at what is now known as Cheekwood).

Oil on canvas. Ca. 1920’s. Signed l.r

Partee was born in Nashville, after graduating high school he studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he later taught.

In New York, he studied at the Art Students League with George Bridgman and Edward Penfield. In 1948 he became director of the Nashville Museum of Art.

Oil on board. Ca. 1970’s. Still life flowers in vase. Signed Lower left Strauser. 10”x8”. Original Lyzon frame; 16”x14”.

A classic Strauser Still life , bright colors and thick impasto.
Sterling Strauser was a self taught modernist artist born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, he was a supervisor of the boiler works at the Pocono, Pennsylvania public schools. Strauser was discovered by artist David Berliuk and Nashville gallery owner Myron King, both men were impressed by Strausers work and believed that his untrained eye allowed him to have artistic freedom.

His works can be found in the following collections: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA.; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. ; Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pa.; Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tn.; Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Va.; American Museum, Bath, England.

Provenance: Purchased by the last owner at Lyzon Gallery, Nashville, TN.

$ 1,600

Original watercolor 13 1/2” x 18” Frame: 14 5/8” x 19 1/4”. Painted April 26th, 1945. For Jensen Publishing Co. Nashville, Tennessee.

GUS BAKER ( TENNESSEE, 1922-1994)

Watercolor on Paper.

Baker was from Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee where he majored in Philosophy.

In 1938, aged sixteen, Baker met another Winchester artist, Avery Handly (1913-1958). Though some nine years older, Handly helped shape his perceptions, criticized, and shared his insights in literature and music. Through his encouragement and mentoring Baker chose a career in the arts. He later studied art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent four years at the Atlanta Art Institute, obtaining the degrees of B.F.A., 1952, and M.F.A., 1953. There he was rated “the star” of the school and awarded the Ellen S. Booth scholarship for advanced studies in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He later studied at the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs.

In 1955 Baker came to Nashville, Tennessee to teach art at Watkins Institute. He later taught at the University of Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Tennessee State University. Besides being a popular art teacher, Baker continued to create. He expressed himself in many different styles ranging from touches of cubism and expressionism to impressionistic scenes sometimes bordering on pointillism.

In 1960 Baker was honored as Nashville Artist of the Year by the Davidson County Business and Professional Women's Club for his work in organizing a memorial exhibition for his longtime friend and mentor, Avery Handly.

Baker won numerous honors for his work and exhibited at the University of the South, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950; Virginia Intermont Competition, 1953; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 1953; University of Tennessee, 1958; Tennessee State Fair, 1958, 1959; Vanderbilt University, 1962; and the Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. But perhaps his most memorable work is the 63 stained glass windows he designed for the Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library and Archives in Nashville.

His work is widely represented in private collections as well as the permanent collections at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Southern Methodist University.

In 1985 he retired from teaching and died May 16, 1994. He is buried in the Baker family plot in Winchester.

In 1996 a memorial retrospective of Baker’s work was held at Belmont University in Nashville.

Provenance: Purchased directly from Gus Baker by his friends and patrons, Whitworrh Stokes and Lucy Brock Stokes.

“The Coal Crackers”. Dated 1978 Oil on board 11” x 14”

Provenance: Purchased from Lyzon Gallery, Nashville TN.

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Title: “Jester”

Pencil drawing on paper. 11 1/2” x 9” Professional conservation framing. Frame: 19 3/4” x 16 3/4”.

Werner Wildner was born in Germany, he moved to Detroit with his family as a child and, as a teenager, to Nashville. He studiedart briefly at the Mienzinger Art School in Detroit. He returned to Nashville to practice commercial art, but by the mid-1950s had decided to pursue his own art career. Wildner met with critical and commercial success after a 1962 exhibit of his art (at what is now known as Cheekwood).

$ 950

Oil on Canvas Original gold leaf frame.

Original Gallery label on back:

“E.D Buckingham, Dealer in:Piano Fortes & Cabinet Organs/ Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise. Art Gallery, a large collection of Oil Paintings, American & Foreign Chromos. Engravings etc. on Exhibition and for Sale. 173 & 175 Genesee St. Utica, N.Y. “

William Ongley was born in England and moved to the United States at a young age. He grew up in Syracuse and studied with New York artist Whiteridge. His paintings were exhibited at the American Art Association.

Portrait of the Racehorse Madam Walton, Jockey Up, circa 1865, unsigned, titled on label verso frame, oil on canvas, 23 x 30 in.; gilt wood frame, 28-5/8 x 35-5/8 in.

Provenance: Estate of T. Kenneth and Karin Ellis, "Stepping Stones", Hot Springs, Virginia

Note: Madam Walton was bred by T. Golby in 1861.

Title: Winter Sunset Sky , dated 1940. Oil on board, signed lower left: “L.E. Jones 1940”. Original frame, 11 1/2” x 13 1/2”.

Untitled ( Dinosaur), January 14th, 1989. Numbered 9000.976. Height : 9 3/8” Length: 18 1/4”. Mixed media on plywood mounted on wood base.

$ 695

American School, 19th century oil on canvas in period gold leaf frame.

Canvas 18.5” x 15”.

The source of this portrait is likely a daguerreotype credited to Daniel Adams of Nashville, Adams was born in Strabane, Ireland in 1810, less than seventy five miles from Carrickfergus, the hometown of Andrew Jackson’s parents. Adams immigrated to American and settle in Nashville in 1832 where he started an engraving and photography business.

Condition: lined.

Provenance: The Collection of Billy S. Arant, Jr. Chattanooga, TN. Billy S. Arant, Jr. was the owner of Billy S. Arant, Jr. Bookseller in Chattanooga as well as a medical doctor. He was an avid collector of Antiques and Andrew Jackson material.

Still Life of Flowers and Yellow Bowl.

Pastel on paper. 17 x 20 inches.

Dated: 1938
Signed lower right Brantley Smith, '38.
Frame:

Brantley Smith studied art in New York at the William Merritt Chase School of Art. Early in his career, Smith had studios in New York City and Newport, R.I. During the winters of the late 1930s and early 1940s, Smith had studios in Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida. He taught art at Winchester and Jasper, Tennessee.

$ 2,800

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Dated August 1st, 1955.

This watercolor was painted when Red Grooms was 18 years old.

Framed, paper laid on board.

$ 1,800

Pines and Sumac. Hand colored Linoleum block print. ca. 1940’s. Frame: 50 1/2” x 27 1/2”.

Walter Anderson made this beautiful hand colored linocut in the 1940’s on the back of discontinued wallpaper. Framed and matted. (not examined out of the frame)

Provenance: Collected by a Nashville art collector in the 1950’s or 1960’s.

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Frederick Weygold (Kentucky 1870-1941) Oil on board 6” x 9 3/4”. Original Frame 9 1/2” x 13 1/4”.. Signed lower right, F.Weygold.

Landscape.

Frederick P. Weygold was born in St. Charles, Missouri in 1870, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Germany. In 1914 he moved to Louisville, where he was very influential in the development of local art and artists. Weygold was very interested in the Sioux Tribe and amassed a vast collection of artifacts which he donated to the Speed Museum. He died in Louisville in 1941.

Provenance: Given by the artist and his wife to Mary Alice and Irwin Gernert or Nashville, Tennessee.

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Frederick Weygold (Kentucky 1870-1941) Oil on board 6 ” x 9 ”. Frame 9 ” x 12 3/4”.. Signed lower right, F.Weygold.

Impressionist woods scene with small creek .

Frederick P. Weygold was born in St. Charles, Missouri in 1870, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Germany. In 1914 he moved to Louisville, where he was very influential in the development of local art and artists. Weygold was very interested in the Sioux Tribe and amassed a vast collection of artifacts which he donated to the Speed Museum. He died in Louisville in 1941.

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Oil on burlap. 1948.

Signed and dated lower right.

Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin Caldwell, Nashville, TN.

Avery Handly was born in Nashville and graduated from Wallace University School and Vanderbilt University. . He studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas Art Institute and with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa.

Handly settled in Winchester, Tennessee after serving overseas in the Navy. He painted semi-abstract, cubist, and abstract works. He did landscapes, still lifes, social comment, and modern pictures based on religious and theological themes. Late in life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. Throughout his work, he continued to reconcile abstraction and representationalism. He painted portraits of Harry Tatum, Mrs. Harvey Templeton Jr., Miss Avery Templeton, and Bishop Ferrani from a photograph, as well as, perhaps, five self-portraits and portraits of family members. He believed that “all paintings have to start with a basis of magnificence. By certain deft twists and tricks, you turn magnificence into meanness–or vice-versa.”

During the late 1940s and 1950s Handly had one-man shows at the University of the South, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club in Nashville. His most important one-man show as held at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York in early 1950. He died in Winchester on October 22, 1958. A memorial exhibition was held at the Nashville Arts Festival in 1960. had one-man shows at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York City, the University of the South at Sewanee, the Hunter Gallery in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club and Vanderbilt University. Source: Tennessee Encyclopedia, Author James C. Kelly.

Identified by Galley label as Lake Toxaway, Transylvania, North Carolina. Dated 1871. Oil on canvas 22”x 36.” Gilded frame: 30” x 44”.

Southern Landscape painted in 1871 during the second generation of Hudson River School. Identified by Gallery label on back. Although identified by a New York gallery label as Lake Toxaway, there is also the possibility that this scene is Yonah Mountain in Georgia, the artist traveled extensively through North East Georgia and Western North Carolina in 1848 making sketches and writing about his travels:

LETTER IV.

“Clarksville, Georgia, April, 1848.The little village where I am now staying is decidedly the most interesting in the northern part of Georgia. “

“But the chief attraction of Clarksville is, that it is the centre of some of the most romantic scenery in the world, and the stopping-place for all those who visit Nacoochee Valley, Yonah Mountain, the Tuccoah Cascade, Tallulah Falls, and Tray Mountain.”

Charles Lanman was born in Munroe, Michigan, and traveled extensively throughout the United States. Eventually settling in Washington D.C. He studied engraving with Asher B. Durand and was influenced by Federic E. Church, John F. Kensett and Thomas Cole. He Exhibited his works at the National Academy of Design in 1873, 1880-84, 1888 and the Brooklyn Art Association in 1874. We previously sold a painting of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee painted by Lanman when he was traveling through Tennessee in the late 1840’s. In addition to painting, he worked as a journalist, author, librarian and government official. He held positions in New York, Ohio, Michigan, and Washington D.C., however, as an avid outdoorsman, Lanman was enthralled by America's uninhabited terrain and often went exploring. He wrote dictionary of the United States Congress (1859) and Letters from a Landscape painter (1845).

Provenance: Originally purchased from Marte Previti Gallery, 246 West 80th. Street, New York, N.Y. SOLD

Oil on canvas. 24 1/4" x 18 1/4"/

Frame: 31 3/4" x 24 7/8".

Signed lower right.

Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin Caldwell, Nashville, TN.

Avery Handly was born in Nashville and graduated from Wallace University School and Vanderbilt University. . He studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas Art Institute and with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa.

Handly settled in Winchester, Tennessee after serving overseas in the Navy. He painted semi-abstract, cubist, and abstract works. He did landscapes, still lifes, social comment, and modern pictures based on religious and theological themes. Late in life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. Throughout his work, he continued to reconcile abstraction and representationalism. He painted portraits of Harry Tatum, Mrs. Harvey Templeton Jr., Miss Avery Templeton, and Bishop Ferrani from a photograph, as well as, perhaps, five self-portraits and portraits of family members. He believed that “all paintings have to start with a basis of magnificence. By certain deft twists and tricks, you turn magnificence into meanness–or vice-versa.”

During the late 1940s and 1950s Handly had one-man shows at the University of the South, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club in Nashville. His most important one-man show as held at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York in early 1950. He died in Winchester on October 22, 1958. A memorial exhibition was held at the Nashville Arts Festival in 1960. had one-man shows at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York City, the University of the South at Sewanee, the Hunter Gallery in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club and Vanderbilt University. Source: Tennessee Encyclopedia, Author James C. Kelly.

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“The Cock”ca. 1940’s. Hand Colored Linoleum block cut print. Frame: 25 7/8” x 18 3/4”.

Condition: Laid on masonite.

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ca. 1940’s. Hand-colored Linoleum Block print. Frame 73”x 12 1/2”.

Condition: Laid on masonite.

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Oil on Canvas 14” x 26”. Kentucky Landscape, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Magnificent period gilded frame: 25 1/4” x 37” Signed and dated l.l. Carl C. Brenner, 1880.

Carl Christian Brenner was born in Lauterecken, Bavaria, Germany in 1838, he went to public school in Bavaria and studied with Philip Frolig in Germany before emigrating to the United States at age 15. He first settled in New Orleans where he worked with his father as a glazer. By 1854 he was in Louisville, Kentucky where he worked as a sign and ornamental painter as well as a house painter. Brenner became a full time landscape painter around 1878, his favorite subject matter where beech trees and scenes of Cherokee park in Louisville and the Cumberland Mountains. If the scene pictured is indeed of Cherokee Park it would depict Beargrass Creek that runs through the Park. Combining a range of styles including Tonalism, Realism and Romanticism his paintings were highly prized and collected during his lifetime, today his works can be found in both private and public collections including Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum, Speed Art Museum, Morris Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, S.C.

Brenner exhibited at: Philadephia Exposition; National Academy of Desig, 1877-1886; Louisville Industrial Exposition, 1879; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1878, 1881-85.

Source: Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Falk.

Condition: Overall good condition, lined, minor scattered touch up. Period frame.

Provenance: Given as a gift to Jacquelyn Heyne by her parents in the early 1950’s when she graduated from Julliard.

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Early 19th century school Girl Map of the United States.
Watercolor and ink on paper 9” x 11 1/2” ( sight ) 19th century gold leaf frame 14” x 17 3/4”.
Hand drawn by Charlotte G Kimball.

In the first part of the 19th century it became popular in the United States to teach girls geography as well as penmanship. Note that this map shows Illinois as a state ( jim Statehood was December 3rd 1818) but does not show Alabama as a state (statehood was December 19th 1819). SOLD

GUS BAKER (TENNESSEE, 1922-1994)
Portrait of Male Model, 1959.
Oil on Masonite: 36” x 26”
Frame: 41 3/4” x 32”
Provenance: Purchased directly from the model Mr. Lew S. Akin who was a student at Vanderbilt University in 1959. Mr. Akin was a model for Gus Baker who taught art classes at the University of Tennessee Center on Broadway, Nashville TN. Letter from Mr. Akin accompanies painting.

Baker was from Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee where he majored in Philosophy.
In 1938, aged sixteen, Baker met another Winchester artist, Avery Handly (1913-1958). Though some nine years older, Handly helped shape his perceptions, criticized, and shared his insights in literature and music. Through his encouragement and mentoring Baker chose a career in the arts. He later studied art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent four years at the Atlanta Art Institute, obtaining the degrees of B.F.A., 1952, and M.F.A., 1953. There he was rated “the star” of the school and awarded the Ellen S. Booth scholarship for advanced studies in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He later studied at the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs.
In 1955 Baker came to Nashville, Tennessee to teach art at Watkins Institute. He later taught at the University of Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Tennessee State University. Besides being a popular art teacher, Baker continued to create. He expressed himself in many different styles ranging from touches of cubism and expressionism to impressionistic scenes sometimes bordering on pointillism.
In 1960 Baker was honored as Nashville Artist of the Year by the Davidson County Business and Professional Women's Club for his work in organizing a memorial exhibition for his longtime friend and mentor, Avery Handly.
Baker won numerous honors for his work and exhibited at the University of the South, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950; Virginia Intermont Competition, 1953; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 1953; University of Tennessee, 1958; Tennessee State Fair, 1958, 1959; Vanderbilt University, 1962; and the Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. But perhaps his most memorable work is the 63 stained glass windows he designed for the Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library and Archives in Nashville.
His work is widely represented in private collections as well as the permanent collections at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Southern Methodist University.
In 1985 he retired from teaching and died May 16, 1994. He is buried in the Baker family plot in Winchester.
In 1996 a memorial retrospective of Baker’s work was held at Belmont University in Nashville.

Gus Baker ( Tennessee,  Nashville, 1922-1994)
Title: Island of Stone.
Oil on Masonite: 22 3/4” x 26 3/4”
Frame: 30 1/2” x 34 1/2”.
Exhibited: Birmingham Museum of Art, Oscar Wells Memorial Exhibit.

Baker was from Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee where he majored in Philosophy.
In 1938, aged sixteen, Baker met another Winchester artist, Avery Handly (1913-1958).[2] Though some nine years older, Handly helped shape his perceptions, criticized, and shared his insights in literature and music. Through his encouragement and mentoring Baker chose a career in the arts. He later studied art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent four years at the Atlanta Art Institute, obtaining the degrees of B.F.A., 1952, and M.F.A., 1953. There he was rated “the star” of the school and awarded the Ellen S. Booth scholarship for advanced studies in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan.[3] He later studied at the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs.
In 1955 Baker came to Nashville, Tennessee to teach art at Watkins Institute. He later taught at the University of Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Tennessee State University. Besides being a popular art teacher, Baker continued to create. He expressed himself in many different styles ranging from touches of cubism and expressionism to impressionistic scenes sometimes bordering on pointillism.
In 1960 Baker was honored as Nashville Artist of the Year by the Davidson County Business and Professional Women's Club for his work in organizing a memorial exhibition for his longtime friend and mentor, Avery Handly.
Baker won numerous honors for his work and exhibited at the University of the South, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950; Virginia Intermont Competition, 1953; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 1953; University of Tennessee, 1958; Tennessee State Fair, 1958, 1959; Vanderbilt University, 1962; and the Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. But perhaps his most memorable work is the 63 stained glass windows he designed for the Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library and Archives in Nashville.
His work is widely represented in private collections as well as the permanent collections at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Southern Methodist University.
In 1985 he retired from teaching and died May 16, 1994. He is buried in the Baker family plot in Winchester.
In 1996 a memorial retrospective of Baker’s work was held at Belmont University in Nashville.

St. John in the Wilderness, Flat Rock North Carolina.

Oil on board. 15 3/4” x 11” Period frame. 19”x 13”.Signed lower left.

St. John in the Wilderness was the first episcopal church in Western North Carolina. Created in 1836 by Bishop Levi Silliman Ives, it was first a private chapel used by Charles and Susan Baring of Charleston, they spent the summers in Flat Rock to get away from the hot Charleston summers. St. John (named after St. John the Baptist) was unusual for the day in that whites and slaves sat together in church. The first service held at the church was between two slaves and both slaves and freed blacks are buried in the church’s cemetery.

Hankins is one of Middle Tennessee’s best know early 20th century landscape and still life painters. Born in Guntown, Mississippi, Hankins moved to Nashville in 1883 and Studied under Edwin M. Gardner, soon afterwards he move to Eagleville, Tennessee to teach at Miss Clark’s Select School for girls. Hankins then moved to St. Louis to study with Robert Henri, then with William Merritt Chase in New York City. Between 1894 and 1899, he lived and worked in Richmond, Virginia. By 1904 he was back in Nashville, where he lived the remainder of his life as a portrait, landscape and still life painter. Hankins was a prolific painter in the 20th century producing many small oil’s on board.

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Oil on board 6” x14” Original gilded frame 14”x 22”. A classic Harvey Joiner Cherokee Park scene with an exceptional gilded frame with burnished highlights. Frame has artist name plaque.

Harvey Joiner was born in Charleston, Indiana in 1852, he studied with David Hoffman in St. Louis and was active in Louisville from 1880 until his death in 1932. He was avery popular Louisvilleartist in his time and was well known for his Cherokee Park paintings.

His works can be found in the following museums/collections:

The Filson Historical Society

Indiana State Museum

Kentucky Historical Society

Morris Museum of Art

The Johnston Collection

The Speed Art Museum.

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Oil on Canvas 14” x 26”. Kentucky Landscape, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Magnificent original gilded frame: 25 1/4” x 37” Signed and dated l.l. Carl C. Brenner, 1882.

Carl Christian Brenner was born in Lauterecken, Bavaria, Germany in 1838, he went to public school in Bavaria and studied with Philip Frolig in Germany before emigrating to the United States at age 15. He first settled in New Orleans where he worked with his father as a glazer. By 1854 he was in Louisville, Kentucky where he worked as a sign and ornamental painter as well as a house painter. Brenner became a full time landscape painter around 1878, his favorite subject matter where beech trees and scenes of Cherokee park in Louisville and the Cumberland Mountains. If the scene pictured is indeed of Cherokee Park it would depict Beargrass Creek that runs through the Park. Combining a range of styles including Tonalism, Realism and Romanticism his paintings were highly prized and collected during his lifetime, today his works can be found in both private and public collections including Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum, Speed Art Museum, Morris Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, S.C.

Brenner exhibited at: Philadephia Exposition; National Academy of Desig, 1877-1886; Louisville Industrial Exposition, 1879; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1878, 1881-85.

Source: Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Falk.

SOLD, Please contact us if you are looking for a Carl Brenner of have one for sale, 615-390-1836.

Graphite on paper. 23” x 34".
Titled : “Woody".

Dated 1966.
Signed lower right.
Graphite on paper sketch of "Woody" with notations for paint colors. Back of drawing has sketches of 4 children.
Carroll Cloar is one of Tennessee's most celebrated artists. The original painting was sold as part of the collection of Dr. Caldwell in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006.
Condition: Creases, pin holes in corners, tears on edges and discoloration.

Provenance: The living Estate of Dr. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. March, 2017. SOLD

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A.E.D.G. Stirling Brown. Horse in a stable. Dated 1901. British artist.

Oil on canvas 18” x 22”

Original gilded frame 22 1/4” x 26 1/4”.

Original frame. Professionally cleaned, patch repairs to back of canvas. SOLS

CORNELIUS HALY HANKINS (TENNESSEE/MISSISSIPPI, 1863-1946)

Still Life with Brass Candlestick, Christ on the Cross, Bible and Pipe. Oil on board. Period gold leaf frame. Signed lower right.

Hankins is one of Middle Tennessee’s best know early 20th century landscape and still life painters. Born in Guntown, Mississippi, Hankins moved to Nashville in 1883 and Studied under Edwin M. Gardner, soon afterwards he move to Eagleville, Tennessee to teach at Miss Clark’s Select School for girls. Hankins then moved to St. Louis to study with Robert Henri, then with William Merritt Chase in New York City. Between 1894 and 1899, he lived and worked in Richmond, Virginia. By 1904 he was back in Nashville, where he lived the remainder of his life as a portrait, landscape and still life painter. Hankins was a prolific painter in the 20th century producing many small oil’s on board. SOLD

Lady Walking down a path in a Wooded Landscape, signed and dated lower right. “Harvey Joiner 93”.

Oil on Canvas, 26 1/4” x 43 1/4”. Original frame, 52 1/2”.

 Harvey Joiner was born in Charleston, Indiana in 1852, he studied with David Hoffman in St. Louis and was active in Louisville from 1880 until his death in 1932. He was avery popular Louisvilleartist in his time and was well known for his Cherokee Park paintings.

This is an unusually large size painting for Joiner, and the lady in the painting is likely his wife.

His works can be found in the following museums/collections:

The Filson Historical Society

Indiana State Museum

Kentucky Historical Society

Morris Museum of Art

The Johnston Collection

The Speed Art Museum. 

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Watercolor on board of Gnomes in a tree with mushrooms below.

8 x 7 inches.

Signed lower left: W.

Werner Wildner was born in Germany, he moved to Detroit with his family as a child and, as a teenager, to Nashville. He studiedart briefly at the Mienzinger Art School in Detroit. He returned to Nashville to practice commercial art, but by the mid-1950s had decided to pursue his own art career. Wildner met with critical and commercial success after a 1962 exhibit of his art (at what is now known as Cheekwood).

Provenance: The living estate of Dr. Caldwell, Nashville, TN.

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Landscape with River and Cattle. Dated 1873. Oil on canvas 14”x 24” Period Gilded frame: 20” X 29 1/2”.

Charles Lanman was born in Munroe, Michigan, and traveled extensively throughout the United States. Eventually settling in Washington D.C. He studied engraving with Asher B. Durand and was influenced by Federic E. Church, John F. Kensett and Thomas Cole. He Exhibited his works at the National Academy of Design in 1873, 1880-84, 1888 and the Brooklyn Art Association in 1874. We previously handled a painting of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee painted by Lanman when he was traveling through Tennessee in the late 1840’s. In addition to painting, he worked as a journalist, author, librarian and government official. He held positions in New York, Ohio, Michigan, and Washington D.C., however, as an avid outdoorsman, Lanman was enthralled by America's uninhabited terrain and often went exploring. He wrote dictionary of the United States Congress (1859) and Letters from a Landscape painter (1845). SOLD

Still Life with Brass Candlestick, vase with Flowers and book. . Oil on canvas 18” x 13”. Period gold leaf frame. Signed lower right.

Hankins is one of Middle Tennessee’s best know early 20th century landscape and still life painters. Born in Guntown, Mississippi, Hankins moved to Nashville in 1883 and Studied under Edwin M. Gardner, soon afterwards he move to Eagleville, Tennessee to teach at Miss Clark’s Select School for girls. Hankins then moved to St. Louis to study with Robert Henri, then with William Merritt Chase in New York City. Between 1894 and 1899, he lived and worked in Richmond, Virginia. By 1904 he was back in Nashville, where he lived the remainder of his life as a portrait, landscape and still life painter.  Hankins was a prolific painter in the 20th century producing many small oil’s on board. SOLD

Farm Yard Chickens and Rooster. Oil on canvas, 12” x 14”. Signed lower right, “Geo. Riecke.” Original gilded frame: 17 1/2” x 19 1/2”.

A charming 19th century American farm yard scene with a rooster and 4 chickens around a stoneware watering bowl. George Riecke was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1848 and studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. He lived and worked in Brooklyn, N.Y., then moved to New Orleans from 1887 to 1902. Riecke exhibited a painting titled Changing Pasture at the National Academy of Design in 1900 and the Artist Association of New Orleans, 1902. Source: Encyclopedia of New Orleans Artists, page 324.

Collections: The University of Kentucky in Lexington, (Sheep in a landscape) Wethersfield Connecticut Historical Society(Hens Standing in Hay) .SOLD

Oil on board of a River with trees along the banks. Signed lower left; Washington Girard. Period frame 17 1/2” x 21 1/2”. Artist board 13” x 17”. This painting depicting a large creek/ river is a departure from Girards more typical beech tree scenes in the woods sometimes with a small creek. It is possible that this scene is the Cumberland River. William Washington Girard was born on Sycamore Creek in Cheatham County, Tennessee, after high school he traveled to New York to study under Edward Moran. Returning to Nashville he became a writer and painter, and was well know locally for his paintings of Brown’s Creek and Sycamore Creek. For an in depth article of Girard see Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Spring 1986. by Richard Weesner.

HARVEY JOINER ( KENTUCKY, 1852-1932) 

Wooded Landscape, signed l.r.

Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky.

Oil on board, Original frame with name plaque.

Board:6 1/4” x 14”. Frame: 12 1/4” x 20 1/4”.

 Harvey Joiner was born in Charleston, Indiana in 1852, he studied with David Hoffman in St. Louis and was active in Louisville from 1880 until his death in 1932. He was avery popular Louisvilleartist in his time and was well known for his Cherokee Park paintings.

This is a beautifully rendered work by the artist, note the wonderful reflections of the beech trees in the pond. Joiner used layers of glazes and contrasting light and dark colors to give his paintings that unmistakable “Joiner” style.

His works can be found in the following museums/collections:

The Filson Historical Society

Indiana State Museum

Kentucky Historical Society

Morris Museum of Art

The Johnston Collection

The Speed Art Museum. 

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CARL CHRISTIAN BRENNER (AMERICAN/KENTUCKY 1838-1888)

Oil on Canvas. Signed Lower left, Carl C. Brenner. Dated 1886. Canvas: 26 1/4”x 14”. Frame: 34” x 22”.

A Kentucky Winter Landscape, a scene showing two large beech trees in the foreground of a snow covered landscape, likely Cherokee Park, Louisville. Superb original untouched condition with original gilded frame. This painting is exceptional in person with a realist effect, the viewer is drawn in to the the woods.

Carl Christian Brenner was born in Lauterecken, Bavaria, Germany in 1838, he went to public school in Bavaria and studied with Philip Frolig in Germany before emigrating to the United States at age 15. He first settled in New Orleans where he worked with his father as a glazer. By 1854 he was in Louisville, Kentucky where he worked as a sign and ornamental painter as well as a house painter. Brenner became a full time landscape painter around 1878, his favorite subject matter where beech trees and scenes of Cherokee park in Louisville and the Cumberland Mountains. Combining a range of styles including Tonalism, Realism and Romanticism his paintings were highly prized and collected during his lifetime, today his works can be found in both private and public collections including Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum, Speed Art Museum, Morris Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, S.C.

Exhibited: Philadephia Exposition; National Academy of Desig, 1877-1886; Louisville Industrial Exposition, 1879; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1878, 1881-85.

Source: Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Falk.

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The Old Kentucky Home, 1920. Frederick Weygold (Kentucky 1870-1941) Oil painted on artist made frame . Inscribed on back by artist: To Ray Gernert from Frederic Weygold. 11 1/2” x 9 1/2”.

Frederick P. Weygold was born in St. Charles, Missouri in 1870, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Germany. In 1914 he moved to Louisville, where he was very influential in the development of local art and artists. Weygold was very interested in the Sioux Tribe and amassed a vast collection of artifacts which he donated to the Speed Museum. He died in Louisville in 1941.

This rare painting shows the front door of Federal Hill, in 1920 before it was purchased by the state and became My Old Kentucky Home State Park. It is the companion painting to the Ferderal Hill painting on my website showing the entire house. Both paintings were given as gifts to the Gernerts of Nashville.

Federal Hill was built between 1795 and 1818 by Judge John Rowan. The Marquis de Lafayette, Stephen Foster, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay all visited Judge Rowan at Federal Hill.

Provenance: Given by the artist and his wife to Mary Alice and Irwin Gernert or Nashville, Tennessee. SOLD

Frederick Weygold (Kentucky 1870-1941) Oil on board 9” x 1`4 1/4”. Original Frame 13 1/4” x 19”. Signed lower right, F.W. Painted 1920.

Frederick P. Weygold was born in St. Charles, Missouri in 1870, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Germany. In 1914 he moved to Louisville, where he was very influential in the development of local art and artists. Weygold was very interested in the Sioux Tribe and amassed a vast collection of artifacts which he donated to the Speed Museum. He died in Louisville in 1941.

This rare painting shows Federal Hill, in 1920 before it was purchased by the state and became My Old Kentucky Home State Park. Federal Hill was built between 1795 and 1818 by Judge John Rowan. The Marquis de Lafayette, Stephen Foster, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay all visited Judge Rowan at Federal Hill. Weygold was friends with Madge Rowan Frost (the last heir of Federal Hill Farm) and painted a series of these paintings to help raise awareness of the property and encourage the Commonwealth of Kentucky to purchase the property.

Typed inscription on back reads:

“ The Sun Shines Bright in the Old Kentucky Home”. Just a little reminder to Mary Alice and Irwin Gernert from Frieda and Frederick Weygold that the sun shines somewhere, even if it is gloomy in Nashville. Federal Hill near Bardstown, Ky as it appeared in the summer of 1920 before it became a state reservation. It was in this house, built in about 1800 (1818), that Stephen Foster wrote (in about 1859) America’s most beautiful folksong “My Old Kentucky Home.”

Provenance: Given by the artist and his wife to Mary Alice and Irwin Gernert or Nashville, Tennessee.

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Hand colored Engraving after the original painting by Edward Troye in the collection of Francis P. Garvan Esq. 1932. One from a set of 20 and a limited edition of 100. Published and Copyrighted At the sign of the Garden Head, New York 1932. Plate size: 15”x 17 1/2”. Paper size: 18 1/2” x 22 1/2”.

“ Chestnut Mare, 1828, By Sir Charles, CH, 1816=Out of a Daughter (GR, 1822) of Cicero. Bred by Thomas Graves Esq. of Chesterfield County, Virginia and foaled on April 2nd, 1828. About 1834 she became the property of Colonel William R. Johnson and Captain David H. Branch of Petersburg, Virginia, who in 1841 sold her to Colonel Bailie Peyton of Station Camp, Tennessee. In her four campaigns, Trifle ran twenty five races, nineteen of which she won-fourteen at four mile heats. At four she won a heat and ran a dead heat I the celebrated twenty mile race at the Union Course on Long Island. John Skinner Esq. editor fo the American Turf Register, said of her in 1835: “Trifle we regard as the best race nag of her size we ever had, and for both speed and bottom surpassed by no horse that has run in America in the last fifteen years.” Her daughter, Gloriana, 1846, was the dam of Jack Malone and Pat Mallory, both fine horses.

Condition: Excellent, never framed.

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Oil  on canvas housed in  exceptional original gilded frame. 

Signed lower left. Frame size: 22” x 26”.

Bahieu was a Belgian artist know for his  farm animal scenes. 

He exhibited in the  Salon des artistes français in Paris between 

1885 and 1895. Several of his works can be seen today, 

in the Louviers Museum and the Eugene Boudin Museum,

 in France. SOLD

On the Brazos River near Glen Rose.
Oil on canvas 18”x22” 
Frame: 25 1/2” x 29 1/2”. 
Signed l.r. Franz Strahalm.

Franz Strahalm was born in Vienna, Austria in 1879, he studied with his father as well as Hamburg Art School, Italy and France. Strahalm lived in Mexico City in 1909 then moved to San Antonio and Houston, finally settling in Dallas Texas. He was a member of the Southern States Art League and exhibited at the Society of independent artists in 1925 and 1928. He was a founder of the San Antonio School of Fine Painting in 1919. His works can be found in private and public institutions including a mural at the Memorial Library in Shreveport, LA; Power and Light company Dallas; Little Rock Art Museum, Elizabeth Ney Museum, Austin. Source: Who Was Who in American Art:Falk.

The Brazos River, thought to have been named by early Spanish explorers (Rio del los Brazos de Dios), translates to “The River of the Arms of God”, starts in New Mexico and ends in the Gulf of Mexico and is over 1,280 miles long. It runs east towards Dallas-Fort Worth, then turns south, passing through Waco and Baylor University campus, then passes near Calvert, Bryan and College Station.

Glen Rose is a small town 52 miles south west of Fort Worth and 17 miles south of Granbury, Texas. Its the County seat of Somerville County.

Original carved and gilded frame With remnants of old Label on  back. 
Provenance: collection of Miller L Jones. Dallas, Texas. 

Please Contact us if you have a Franz Strahalm painting for sale. Email: Michael@MichaelHallAntiques.com. Telephone 615-390-1836

Inscription: “ Del to Miss Harriett Childress Homestead. ” Oil on canvas 20” x 30”. Gilded Frame 24” x 34”.

Middle Tennessee Landscape, Signed lower right.

Mayna Avent’s style incorporates plein-air painting and Impressionist broken brushwork along with high-keyed colorism infused with rich sunlight. It appears be have been painted around the same time as a very similar painting Titled “Off Franklin or Nolensville Pike, Nashville”,  pictured in Art Across American, The South and The West by William H. Gerdts. Page 146 Fig. 2.134. T.  Works by Avent of this size and quality rarely come one the market. Avent was born on September 17th, 1868 , at Tulip Gove Mansion, across from Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage in Nashville. She studied in Cincinatti then studied at the Julian Academy in Paris for two years. She returned to Tennessee and married Murfreesboro attorney Frank Avent in 1891. Avent was a member of the Nashville studio club, the Nashville Artist Guild, and the  Centennial Club. She died on January 2nd, 1959 in Sewanee, Tennessee. Source: Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Portrait painting in Tennessee, James C. Kelly. 1987.

Provenance: Gift from the artist to Harriett B. Childress (1907-1976) wife of John Childress Tune (Married in 1930, Mary Williams Childress (1834-1994) married James Monroe Avent, their son Frank Avent (1858-1941) was the husband of the artist Mayna Avent.

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Highly detailed plaque of a winged angle painting a mural. framed in a 19th century walnut frame with a gold leaf reeded liner. Plaque: 5 1/2”. Frame: 13” x 15”. Sold

Male Model, Signed and Dated 1960.

Baker was from Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee where he majored in Philosophy.
In 1938, aged sixteen, Baker met another Winchester artist, Avery Handly (1913-1958). Though some nine years older, Handly helped shape his perceptions, criticized, and shared his insights in literature and music. Through his encouragement and mentoring Baker chose a career in the arts. He later studied art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent four years at the Atlanta Art Institute, obtaining the degrees of B.F.A., 1952, and M.F.A., 1953. There he was rated “the star” of the school and awarded the Ellen S. Booth scholarship for advanced studies in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He later studied at the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs.
In 1955 Baker came to Nashville, Tennessee to teach art at Watkins Institute. He later taught at the University of Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Tennessee State University. Besides being a popular art teacher, Baker continued to create. He expressed himself in many different styles ranging from touches of cubism and expressionism to impressionistic scenes sometimes bordering on pointillism.
In 1960 Baker was honored as Nashville Artist of the Year by the Davidson County Business and Professional Women's Club for his work in organizing a memorial exhibition for his longtime friend and mentor, Avery Handly.
Baker won numerous honors for his work and exhibited at the University of the South, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950; Virginia Intermont Competition, 1953; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 1953; University of Tennessee, 1958; Tennessee State Fair, 1958, 1959; Vanderbilt University, 1962; and the Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. But perhaps his most memorable work is the 63 stained glass windows he designed for the Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library and Archives in Nashville.
His work is widely represented in private collections as well as the permanent collections at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Southern Methodist University.
In 1985 he retired from teaching and died May 16, 1994. He is buried in the Baker family plot in Winchester.
In 1996 a memorial retrospective of Baker’s work was held at Belmont University in Nashville. SOLD

Oil on Canvas 14” x 26”. Kentucky Landscape, likely a scene showing Beargrass Creek that runs through Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Magnificent original gilded frame: 24” x 35 3/4”.

Carl Christian Brenner was born in Lauterecken, Bavaria, Germany in 1838, he went to public school in Bavaria and studied with Philip Frolig in Germany before emigrating to the United States at age 15. He first settled in New Orleans where he worked with his father as a glazer. By 1854 he was in Louisville, Kentucky where he worked as a sign and ornamental painter as well as a house painter. Brenner became a full time landscape painter around 1878, his favorite subject matter where beech trees and scenes of Cherokee park in Louisville and the Cumberland Mountains. If the scene pictured is indeed of Cherokee Park it would depict Beargrass Creek that runs through the Park. Combining a range of styles including Tonalism, Realism and Romanticism his paintings were highly prized and collected during his lifetime, today his works can be found in both private and public collections including Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum, Speed Art Museum, Morris Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, S.C.

Exhibited: Philadephia Exposition; National Academy of Desig, 1877-1886; Louisville Industrial Exposition, 1879; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1878, 1881-85.

Source: Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Falk.

Provenance: Alexander Galt Robinson and Mariah Lewis (Booker) Robinson. It hung in their estate in Louisville, Kentucky Located at 5040 Nitta Yuma Drive. Alexander Robinson was the Great-grandson fo Richard Henry Lee, Member of the Virginia of Correspondence and of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

The Nitta Yuma Historic District is located on bluffs above the Ohio River in the northeastern section of Jefferson County, Kentucky eight miles from Louisville. Nitta Yuma is an Indian phrase meaning "high ground." This small residential district consists of four houses, three of which were built in the neo-classical styles of the early 20th century. The fourth house is a ca. 1870 vernacular farmhouse. The area is magnificently landscaped and was designed by F.L. Olmsted, Sr. The district has no intrusions. These four structures form the core of the original historic area as other houses have been destroyed by fire and have been replaced with mid-20th century dwellings.

The area known a Nitta Yuma was acquired in 1890 by three prominent Louisville businessmen who wanted to form a summer enclave for their families. They purchased land from the estate of James Todd, a Louisville attorney. The businessmen were: George Garvin Brown founder of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp.; Charles Peaslee and William Frederick Booker who were both associated with the Peaslee-Gaulbert Co. which produced paint, lamps and oil. They hired the assistant engineer of the City of Louisville, Major Joseph D. Claybrook (1843-1921) to build the roads at Nitta Yuma. He lived in the Todd House, a vernacular farmhouse, until his death. Claybrook was a military man, an engineer and a physician although he did not practice medicine. He was superintendent of the building of the Louisville Southern Railroad and the Mexican Central Railroad and was superintendent of the Portland Canal, appointed by President Cleveland. He was married to Mary Louise Booker, one of the members of the Booker family who founded Nitta Yuma.

The four houses are situated in the landscaped grounds which, according to family tradition, were designed by F.L. Olmsted. The residences are set back in the landscaped setting from an undulating road framed by a stone entrance. The oldest of the structures is the Todd House a two-story frame, vernacular farmhouse built ca. 1870. The residence has a central gable and porch supported by columns across the front. The west side of the house has a bay window. There have been frame additions made to the house in the early twentieth century which are compatible with the original dwelling.

The Alex Gait Robinson house is an asymmetrical two-story frame house built in the neo-colonial revival style. The roof line is pierced with gables and dormers. A large Palladian-type window highlights the facade. The entrance is framed by fluted, Ionic pilasters and protected by a detailed porch across the facade. The interior woodwork is of a high caliber. The house was built in 1905 and was designed by a well-known Louisville architect, E.T. Hutchings. Hutchings (1886-1958) worked on numerous buildings in Louisville including Central Presbyterian Church and the Womans Club. He studied architecture at the University of Kentucky, Cornell University and in Germany and England.

Still Life with Apples. Oil on wood panel, 7” x 10 1/4”. Period gold leaf frame. Signed lower right.

Hankins is one of Middle Tennessee’s best know early 20th century landscape and still life painters. Born in Guntown, Mississippi, Hankins moved to Nashville in 1883 and Studied under Edwin M. Gardner, soon afterwards he move to Eagleville, Tennessee to teach at Miss Clark’s Select School for girls. Hankins then moved to St. Louis to study with Robert Henri, then with William Merritt Chase in New York City. Between 1894 and 1899, he lived and worked in Richmond, Virginia. By 1904 he was back in Nashville, where he lived the remainder of his life as a portrait, landscape and still life painter.  Hankins was a prolific painter in the 20th century producing many small oil’s on board, it is great to have this early example of his work.

Oil on board. Tennessee Landscape.
Signed lower left,“ Cornelius Hankins.
 
Hankins is one of Middle Tennessee’s best know early 20th century landscape and still life painters. Born in Guntown, Mississippi, Hankins moved to Nashville in 1883 and Studied under Edwin M. Gardner, soon afterwards he move to Eagleville, Tennessee to teach at Miss Clark’s Select School for girls. Hankins then moved to St. Louis to study with Robert Henri, then with William Merritt Chase in New York City. Between 1894 and 1899, he lived and worked in Richmond, Virginia where he completed several important portrait commissions of Confederate Generals for Battle Abbey. By 1904 he was back in Nashville, where he lived the remainder of his life as a portrait, landscape and still life painter.  Hankins was a prolific painter in the 20th century producing many small oil’s on board.

Oil on Canvas. 10"x12"

Signed lower left Carl C. Brenner 1884. Untitled.

Original Gilded Frame, with original name plaque.

This work is a wonderful example of Brenners mature style, incorporating Tonalism, Romanticism and Realism, the viewers eye is drawn in the lush woods by a path.

Artist Carl Christian Brenner was born in Lauterecken, Bavaria, Germany in 1838, he went to public school in Bavaria and studied with Philip Frolig in Germany before emigrating to the United States at age 15. He first settled in New Orleans where he worked with his father as a glazer. By 1854 he was in Louisville, Kentucky where he worked as a sign and ornamental painter as well as a house painter. Brenner became a full time landscape painter around 1878, his favorite subject matter where beech trees and scenes of Cherokee park in Louisville and the Cumberland Mountains. Combining a range of styles including Tonalism, Realism and Romanticism his paintings were highly prized and collected during his lifetime, today his works can be found in both private and public collections including Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum, Speed Art Museum, Morris Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, S.C.

Exhibited: Philadephia Exposition; National Academy of Desig, 1877-1886; Louisville Industrial Exposition, 1879; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1878, 1881-85.

Source: Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Falk.

Likely a scene of Cherokee Park.

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Hand  colored Print published by M. Knoedler of New York and lithographed & colored abroad in London or Paris by Goupil & Co. in 1867.  After Leonard Jerome’s original oil painting by Troye showing Jerome as the driver of his coach in the background of Kentucky’s image. The original portrait was a commission to Troye from Jerome after Kentucky won the inaugural Jerome Stakes in 1866 at Jerome Park (Bronx). The original is not located with speculation that it did not make the return trip to America after being sent to Paris for purposes of reproduction.  Condition: Original unrestored, foxing and water marks. 

(American, Tennessee, 1802-1888). 

Portrait of David S. Evans, Shelbyville, Tennessee.

ca. 1841, oil on canvas. 

Canvas: 30 1/4” x 25 1/4”

Frame: 35 3/4” x 30 3/4”

Formal portrait painting depicting David S. Evans (American (Shelbyville, Tennessee), 1794-1869) at bust length wearing a black coat over white shirt and black cravat, his long face with strong nose, large blue eyes, and thin pink lips, the figure seated in a red upholstered chair in front of a dark, solid background.

Label to verso of frame "David S. Evans, Born Nov. 29, 1795 Virginia, Died Aug. 19, 1869 Shelbyville, Tenn, Great Grandfather of Margaret Evans Lyle Cooper" (from Johnson City, Tennessee.)

David Evans was from Caroline county, Virginia, he married Judith Boulware Evans (1797-1870). They migrated to Shelbyville, Tennessee.   

Condition: Lined, scattered touch up. Original frame.

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Oil on canvas, 11" x 14.5"  Original Gilded frame. 

Rectangular canvas with an oval spandrel containing a portrait of Miss Elizabeth Howard Bridges with her back to the viewer, her head turned to glance over her left shoulder, and her gaze directed toward the viewer. She wears a white off-the-shoulder dress with long puffy sleeves and a sash at the waist. A gold shawl is draped over her right shoulder, across her back and over her left arm. her dark brown hair is pulled up in a bun at the back of her head and long ringlets frame her face. The background is filled with leafy green treetops and clouds, with a column visible on the left.  Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Smilie, Hilda Reynolds, Montgomery, Alabama. The artist is in the circle/school of Thomas Sully.      Elizabeth Howard Bridges married William J. Johnson in 1845 in Mobile, Alabama. She is buried in the Bridges plot with her parents at Magnolia Cemetery in downtown Mobile. 

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Signed lower left: R.Grooms ’39.
Oil on canvas 18" x 22"
Original hand carved frame: 22”x26”.
Reginald Grooms was the dean of Cincinnati Regionalist painters and exhibited his New England and Ohio American Scene works nationally including at the 1939 Wold's Fair in New York.
This painting was painted in 1939 and was likely painted in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Condition: Excellent,untouched.

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Caption: “Mills Equestrian statue of Gen. Andrew Jackson Erected Opposite the President’s Mansion Washington, D.C.” Date 1853. Engraving. 25” x 30”. Creator: John Sartain, (1808-1897) Published by Ja. Irwin. From original drawings after a daguerreotype by Marcus Aurelius Root.

A very rare engraving, of impressive size.

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Still life, Flowers In Glass Vase

Canvas 24" x 30"

Hand carved 23 carat gold frame: 41 1/2" x 35 1/2".

Painter of portraits and still lifes, Ella S. Hergesheimer was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Elamanda Ritter and Charles Patterson Hergesheimer. Hergesheimer was the direct descendant of Charles Willson Peale, artist and founder of Peale's Museum, part of whose collections later became the Smithsonian Institution. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, studying with Cecilia Beaux and William Merritt Chase, including one summer at Shinnecock on Long Island in 1900. She also studied in Europe for three years.

After her work was included in a 1905 traveling exhibit by the Nashville Art Association, Hergesheimer received a 1907 commission to paint the portrait of Methodist Bishop Holland N. McTyeire of Vanderbilt University. She remained in Nashville for the rest of her life, establishing her studio in the downtown area on Church Street and later at Eighth Avenue and Broadway.

Hergesheimer's two most notable portraits are that of former Speaker of the House Joseph W. Byrns, on view at the U.S. Capitol, and that of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury, which hangs in the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Among her numerous Tennessee subjects are Nashvillians Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Maddin, and Joseph H. Thompson. The Cheekwood Museum of Art owns her 1931 self-portrait, painted when she was fifty-eight.

Hergesheimer was also known for her still lifes, landscapes, and printmaking. Her early subdued palette was replaced in the works from the 1930s with her better known bright coloration. She exhibited extensively throughout the South, winning numerous awards, including the gold medal at the 1910 Appalachian Exposition in Knoxville.

(Source: The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture)

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Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York

Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia

Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania

Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee

United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Major Exhibits:

American Artists Professional League

Art Institute of Chicago

Corcoran Gallery of Art

National Academy of Design

New Orleans Art Association

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Salons of America

Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1926)

Society of Independent Artists

Awards:

Gold medal, Appalachian Exposition (1910)

Gold medal, Tennessee State Exposition (1926)

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Sojourn in Florida, oil on canvas 35 1/2” x 44 1/4”.

Frame:43” x 52”. Signed l.r.

Exhibited at the Parthenon May 8-29, 1960. Memorial exhibition and catalogue compiled by Gus Baker. Number 38 in Exhibition catalogue.

Catalogue entry for painting: “ Once the idea of a series of painting was given up it was as though this gave the painter a new sense of freedom. Handly had been deeply disturbed by what he called “ the inherent evil in Tennessee Williams’ “ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.”. This is the end result of hedonism but without the despair of an Hegesius; rather, and simply , boredom. The satire extends to giving the woman two left hands. Of this painting Handly said, “ I’m so proudest of the gin bottle, because it really looks like gin.”Handly settled in Winchester, Tennessee after serving overseas in the Navy. He painted semi- abstract, cubist, and abstract works. He did landscapes, still lifes, social comment, and modern pictures based on religious and theological themes. Late in life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. Throughout his work, he continued to reconcile abstraction and representationalism. He painted portraits of Harry Tatum, Mrs. Harvey Templeton Jr., Miss Avery Templeton, and Bishop Ferrani from a photograph, as well as, perhaps, five self-portraits and portraits of family members. He believed that all paintings have to start with a basis of magnificence. By certain deft twists and tricks, you turn magnificence into meanness or vice-versa.

During the late 1940s and 1950s Handly had one-man shows at the University of the South, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club in Nashville. His most important one-man show as held at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York in early 1950. He died in Winchester on October 22, 1958. A memorial exhibition was held at the Nashville Arts Festival in 1960. had one-man shows at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York City, the University of the South at Sewanee, the Hunter Gallery in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club and Vanderbilt University

Provenance: From the estate of art collector and artist Lewis B. Burton (1928-2021) of Nashville, TN.

General Robert E. Lee in Confederate Uniform.
Signed and Dated 1918 on verso.                                                                Oil on canvas 40 1/2" x 25"   Frame 49" x 34"                                               A striking rendition of Robert E. Lee in Confederate Uniform. Robert E. Lee ( 1807-1870) was best know as the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. After the war Lee became the president of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.  Artist Poindexter Page Carter was born in Georgia in 1851, he married the daughter of Dr. H.H. King of Greensboro, Georgia and became a leading portrait painter in the south during the late 19th and early 20th century.  His portraits included governors and leading Confederate military heroes.  There is an exhibit of Carter's paintings at the Madison Museum of Fine Art, in Madison, Georgia.  

ca. 1845-50. Oil on Canvas. Unsigned. Canvas is stenciled " PREPARED BY F. HAGAN LOUISVILLE, KY."                                                            Canvas: 27" x 22". Original frame: 33 1/2" 28".  Documented in the Inventory of American Paintings, Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. # 9D640434

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Fall Scene, Oil on Canvas. 16"x 20"

Original frame: 21" x 25"

Signed l.l. Palmer Chrisman, Signed and dated on back of canvas Palmer Chrisman, Dec 1968.

Palmer Chrisman was born in 1913, after his service in World War II he returned to Texas where he became a Physician and began painting, studying under Porfirio Salinas. His paintings depict the Texas Hill Country, President Lyndon B. Johnson was a patron of Chrisman and is said to have ordered 30 of his paintings to be given as Christmas Gifts from the White House. (Source: Ask Art)

Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Dr. Charles R. and Edith C. Ratliff.

Landscape. Oil on board 5 1/4" x 8"  Period frame: 9" x 11 3/4"

signed with initials C.H.                                                     Provenance:Pen inscription on back reads: " belonged to Mrs. L. W. Mills."

Hankins is one of Middle Tennessee’s best know early 20th century landscape and still life painters. Born in Guntown, Mississippi, Hankins moved to Nashville in 1883 and Studied under Edwin M. Gardner, soon afterwards he move to Eagleville, Tennessee to teach at Miss Clark’s Select School for girls. Hankins then moved to St. Louis to study with Robert Henri, then with William Merritt Chase in New York City. Between 1894 and 1899, he lived and worked in Richmond, Virginia where he completed several important portrait commissions of Confederate Generals for Battle Abbey. By 1904 he was back in Nashville, where he lived the remainder of his life as a portrait, landscape and still life painter.  Hankins was a prolific painter in the 20th century producing many small oil’s on board, it is great to have this early oil on canvas example of his early work.

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Oil on board. 18" x 21"

Landscape with Dogtrot log cabin and white picket fence.

Original frame.

This Dogtrot log cabin scene with a white picket fence and spring house is painted in Alberta Kinsey's typical loose painterly realism style. Kinsey painted another cabin scene of similar size with Melrose Plantation Folk artist Clementine Hunter standing on the front porch. 

Kinsey was originally from Milton, Ohio, she attended the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Chicago Art School, she taught art at Lebanon University in Lebanon Ohio. She moved to the French Quarter in New Orleans in 1918, this was uncommon for a woman of her background at that time, as the Quarter was mostly a slum with saloons. She set up studio and taught classes for the next 33 years and was an early advocate for the preservation and restoration of the quarter. Kinsey is best know for French Quarter courtyard scenes.

Note: Painted on an F. Weber Co. Artist board. F. Weber and Company is an American manufacturer and supplier of Artists materials, established in Philadelphia in 1853, in 1919 following the death of Frederick W. Weber Sr. his two sons Fred W. Weber and Ernest Weber had the company incorporated and changed the name to F. WEBER CO.

Provenance: The Estate of Mr. Bardwell, Nashville, TN. 

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Horses in a Field. Watercolor on Paper.
Steffen Thomas was born in Germany where he was formally trained in art. In 1930 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia.  Thomas is best know for his public monuments and the Steffen Thomas Museum.

Watercolor on Paper.
Steffen Thomas was born in Germany where he was formally trained in art. In 1930 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia.  Thomas is best know for his public monuments and the Steffen Thomas Museum.

Bluebonnets

Oil on Canvas.  24" x 36"

Original frame.

Palmer Chrisman was born in 1913, after his service in World War II he returned to Texas where he became a Physician and began painting, studying under Porfirio Salinas. His paintings depict the Texas Hill Country, President Lyndon B. Johnson was a patron of Chrisman and is said to have ordered 30 of his paintings to be given as Christmas Gifts from the White House. (Source Ask Art.)

Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Dr. Charles R. and Edith C. Ratliff.

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Artist: E. Wood,

Early 20th C.

Water Color on Board.

Period Burl Wood Frame: 23"x 26"

Nasturtium (1899–1916) was an American thoroughbred racehorse that was the top two-year-old colt of 1901. He was a contender for the 1902 Epsom Derby.

Nasturtium, a "racy-looking and powerful" chestnut horse standing 15.2 hands high was bred at James Haggin's Rancho El Paso stud in California and was sired by the imported British stallion Watercress out of Margerique. Margerique was an unraced mare by the imported British stallion Order out of Margerine, who also foaled another successful racer The Commoner.

After William Whitney's death, Nasturtium was sold in the October 1904 dispersal sale for $10,000 to Col. Milton Young. Nasturtium was sold to George J. Stoll. The best of his offspring was probably the filly stamina. Nasturtium was found dead in his stall at The Meadows stud farm in Lexington on June 26, 1916. His death may have resulted from heart disease.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Horse in Stall, possibly Parole                                                                     18 x 24 inches oil on canvas                                                                      Signed l.l.

Thomas J. Scott was an itinerant painter who traveled the United States painting horses and livestock between 1856 and 1888. He was also a reporter for Turf, Field and Farm as well as the Kentucky Live Stock Record. In 1857 Scott came to Kentucky where he began taking drawing lessons from horse painter Edward Troye.(1808-1874). The horse in this painting closely resembles Parole, Scott painted Parole in 1879 with his jockey. (see page 32, A Troye Legacy Animal Painter T.J. Scott by Genevieve Baird Lacer.)

Condition: Excellent, canvas has been lined.

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Oil on board.
Signed lower left,“ Cornelius Hankins.
 Frame: 10 3/8” x 13 7/8”
 
Hankins is one of Middle Tennessee’s best know early 20th century landscape and still life painters. Born in Guntown, Mississippi, Hankins moved to Nashville in 1883 and Studied under Edwin M. Gardner, soon afterwards he move to Eagleville, Tennessee to teach at Miss Clark’s Select School for girls. Hankins then moved to St. Louis to study with Robert Henri, then with William Merritt Chase in New York City. Between 1894 and 1899, he lived and worked in Richmond, Virginia where he completed several important portrait commissions of Confederate Generals for Battle Abbey. By 1904 he was back in Nashville, where he lived the remainder of his life as a portrait, landscape and still life painter.  Hankins was a prolific painter in the 20th century producing many small oil’s on board.

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J.E. Wagner

Rare 1855 city view of Nashville 

Lithograph. 17"x22".

Artist: Benjamin F. Landis after the original by Chester Harding.( 1792-1866)

1924.

Oil on canvas. 84 1/4” x 55 1/4”

Frame: 92 1/4” 63 1/2”

Unsigned, identified on back with Merchants Club labels. Documented by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. (NY900429).

 Portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall, by Benjamin F.  Landis, New York, 1924, (after the original by Chester Harding, 1830).   Height  (frame) 92 1/4”, width (frame)  63 1/2”.  Sight size: 84 1/4" x 55 1/4”.  Oil on Canvas in a reproduction frame of bronze powder on wood. 

This beautifully executed portrait of John Marshall is copied from artist Chester Harding's 1830  original that has long hung in the Boston Athenaeum. Chester Harding made a copy, which a group of prominent Bostonian businessmen and Harvard professors, acquired on behalf of the Harvard Law School in 1847. The present version is third, full-length version know, and dates to 1924 when artist Benjamin F. Landis was commissioned by Elisha P. Cronkhite for the Merchants Club in New York City,  where it hung for decades in their headquarters at 26 Thomas Street in lower Manhattan.1

John Marshall was born in 1755 in Germantown, Fauquier County Virginia to Thomas Marshall and Mary Isham Keith. He attended the College of William and Mary and fought in the American Revolution where he became friends with George Washington. Marshall was  fourth Chief Justice of the Unite States Supreme Court from 1801-1835, serving under Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. His court opinions have established much of the basis for Constitutional law and cemented the role of the Supreme Court as the ultimate arbiter on matters related to the interpretation of the Constitution. 

CONDITION:  The painting survives in overall fine condition, with the original stretcher and frame from the 1930s.  It has never been relined and though several small holes have patches from the reverse, the piece presently quite well.  A paintingconservatorlightly cleaned the painting of later accretions in 2014, and varnished the surface.  

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1. All information concerning the life portraits of Marshall hails from Andrew Oliver,  “The Portraits of John Marshall (Charlottesville ,Va:  University Press of Virginia, 1977), p. 79;  Mr. Cronkhite was the principal  partner in Smith, Hogg, and Company, a commission house that brokered dry goods from a large number of New England mills. 

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Commissioned by Elisha P. Cronkhite in 1924, by gift to 

The Merchants Club in New York City, deaccessioned to

A Private Collector, 1995, by sale to

Michael Hall Antiques and Fine Art, Nashville  2013.

Oil on board.

Signed l.r.

 William Gilbert Gaul was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Upon the death of his maternal uncle, Gaul inherited land near Fall Creek Falls in Van Buren county Tennessee. Gaul split his time between Fall Creek Falls and New York City. He later taught at Cumberland Female College inMcMinnville, Tennessee. He opened a studio in Nashville in 1905.

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Clementine Hunter (American/Louisiana, 1886-1988)
“Buzzards” 1961.
Monogrammed lower right CH.
Oil on board, 14” x 18”

Clementine Hunter is considered to be one of the most important folk
artists of all time, she is Louisiana’s most famous woman artist. Her
works are in the Museum of American Folk Art in New York, Smithsoninian
Institute, The New Orleans Museum of Art, High Museum Atlanta, Dallas
Museum of Art, New York Historical Association and the Oprah Winfrey
Collection in Chicago as well as may other private and institutional collections.

Hunter grew up in the Cane River region of Louisiana,  the granddaughter
of slaves, she spent most of her life working on Melrose Plantation. She began to
paint when she was in her 50’s, her work painted between 1940 and 1960 is
considered to be her best.

Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by John Ducournau
on June 30th, 1961. Mr. Ducournaupurchased this painting and gifted
it to his friend Joe. Inscription on back reads:  Joe, “ Here yo’buzzards
is. Much know’d day had feathers on day head tho” John.
This painting has been authenticated by scholar and Clementine Hunter expert Tom Whitehead.

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